In a new video, Shafaq Fatima, Ph.D., looks back on ASA/WISHH’s FEEDing Pakistan Aquaculture project and how it also pushed career development for women in the country, supported the long-term development of the aquaculture industry in Pakistan, and furthered demand for U.S. soy.
“Under the ASA WISHH program, the first state of the art feed mill was established in Pakistan,” noted Fatima, an associate professor at Pakistan’s Lahore College for Women. “And now we have twenty feed mills dedicated to fish food production only in Pakistan. And there are several young women in influential positions that were trained under the FEEDing Pakistan project.”
Implemented between 2011-17, FEEDing Pakistan bridged public-private partnerships that led to long-term trade for fish feed made with U.S. soy. After the conclusion of WISHH’s USDA-funded project, the U.S. Soybean Export Council has carried the torch and now works in Pakistan, executing international marketing and market access activities for U.S. soy in the country.